20 best quotes from Criminal Minds

Nearly every episode of the TV show Criminal Minds begins and ends with a thought-provoking quote. Here are some of the best ones.

one
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ~ Albert Einstein
(Season 1: Compulsion)

two
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ~ William Faulkner
(Season 1: Compulsion)

three
The irrationality of a thing is not an argument of its existence, rather, a condition of it. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
(Season 1: L.D.S.K.)

four
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable. ~ [attributed to] Shakespeare
(Season 1: L.D.S.K.)

five
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind. ~ Robert Oxton Bolton
(Season 1: Derailed)

six
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal. ~ Albert Pine
(Season 1: Riding the Lightning)

seven
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
(Season 1: A Real Rain)

eight
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell
(Season 1: Secrets and Lies)

nine
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. ~ Helen Keller
(Season 2: Aftermath)

ten
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ~ Plato
(Season 2: The Boogeyman)

eleven
Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future. ~ Dale Turner
(Season 2: Lessons Learned)

twelve
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~ Mahatma Ghandi
(Season 2: Ashes and Dust)

thirteen
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world. Not even our troubles. ~ Charles Chaplin
(Season 2: Legacy)

fourteen
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
(Season 2: Scared to Death)

fifteen
Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He's simply the acceptable face of invading realities. ~ Clive Barker
(Season 3: True Night)

sixteen
For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
(Season 3: Limelight)

seventeen
A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ. ~ John Steinbeck
(Season 3: Elephant's Memory)

eighteen
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ~ Ernest Hemingway
(Season 4: Mayhem)

nineteen
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. ~ Chuck Palahnuik
(Season 4: The Angel Maker)

twenty
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. ~ Terry Pratchett
(Season 4: Conflicted)

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